June 30, 2011
12:48 pm JST

June 30, 2011
12:50 pm JST

June 30, 2011
12:52 pm JST

Hello, ladies.

Pretty girls, pretty vacant.

Is this necessary? Every time one of these pictures comes up someone feels the need to dump all over the girls in it. How you manage to determine someone's level of intelligence from a picture of that person holding a handbag is beyond me.

June 30, 2011
01:00 pm JST

June 30, 2011
01:14 pm JST

They are not just cute, they are beautiful. Tsuchiya-san is really tall. Yes, she IS wearing heels, but they all are. However she is the tallest of all. I wonder how tall she is? I'm sure some commenter will hit google, and then come back with her height for me, so I'm not going to go and check it myself. I'm just wondering. I'm 6'5" so I LOVE to see really really tall women.

June 30, 2011
01:19 pm JST

@ triumvere

it is a simple fact that these girls have nothing to contribute intellectually to anything of import in the public sphere, and are merely being used as props by the media to distract people who otherwise might be paying attention to things that actually mater.

June 30, 2011
02:06 pm JST

June 30, 2011
02:14 pm JST

June 30, 2011
02:31 pm JST

To be honest, I'm kind of sick of seeing these pictures of superficial-looking girls on here.. (unless of course they are scantily clad.) "These girls are like a collection of Japan’s national treasures. They’re so cute.” Really... What do these girls do besides 'look cute', encourage consumerism and materialism, and send the message to young girls that they need to look and dress a certain way or or else...??? If these are what Japan considers 'national treasures', then it is pretty sad.

June 30, 2011
03:38 pm JST

They have all been brought up (brainwashed by TV and magazines) to believe that looking cute (a.k.a childish) and acting like a 14 year old is sexy.
Now, IMHO Aya Sugimoto has mastered the art of looking sexy without the childish behavior :)

June 30, 2011
04:16 pm JST

June 30, 2011
04:34 pm JST

Yeah, great more pics of women so the sexists can gloat and drool like pre teen school boys.These womens fees just add to the price of the handbags. They get paid to stand and smile, a chimp could be trained to do that and have more personality.

These women should be at home with a duster in hand or baking some delicous cakes.

June 30, 2011
05:00 pm JST

June 30, 2011
05:32 pm JST

@Lucabrasi

Are you kidding me? I am the king of sarcasm, but ya know sometimes these things don't come through on the internet and there are also plenty of people who say dumb stuff and contradict themselves. I honestly couldn't tell which was the case here, which was why I asked.

June 30, 2011
06:18 pm JST

June 30, 2011
06:31 pm JST

In comparison to the others, the girl on the right, Hazuki Tsuchiya has the most natural facial expression. This is in contrast to Ebi-chan, where the facial expression looks like focused on the camera and then frozen - a visibly fake smile.

June 30, 2011
10:24 pm JST

June 30, 2011
10:26 pm JST

Hate to admit it, but the 17 year-old does steal the show. Her legs are awesome. Not like Mizuki's and Jessica's, who's are just skinny. Although predictably cute and superficial, a big part of me hopes this helps sell some handbags. God knows that the economy needs some good news, especially a boost in consumer spending.

June 30, 2011
10:45 pm JST

June 30, 2011
10:55 pm JST

June 30, 2011
11:24 pm JST

“I hope we can reenergize Japan with beautiful smiles.”

Did numbers 2 and 5 not receive the memo?

And why does nobody understand the difference between cute and beautiful? Number 2 is trying to undermine her beauty by wearing something cute in her hair so she looks babyish, but it doesn't cut it. Put these buirds in a black basque with fishnets and some halfwit would still start squeaking "kawaii".

July 1, 2011
08:00 am JST

July 1, 2011
08:34 am JST

Wow who on earth thought Itano was a right pick? I feel sorry for her, even tho she is cute, she is out legged by the others. I hate Rola, she is NOT cute and the entertainment industry should stop recruiting more halfus just because they are halfu.

July 1, 2011
11:00 pm JST

Whats up with the leg fetish on JT? Did I miss something??

Yeah Itano does not match the picture. Even her expression shows she knows it.
Shes usually smiling from ear to ear in every photo but in this one LOL looks totally depressed and not happy to be there at all.